You were a nerd interested in computers. They still exist in younger generations. Just became way less common because the necessity disappeared for most people. Most prefer computers (or any device or tech really) that “just works”. Some are interested in how things work. 90% of Lemmy is the latter, from all generations but many in their 30s and 40s because that was peak computer learning age: rather cheap hardware, software still needed to be hacked together somewhat, clear rewards when doing so (for example messing with game settings IRQ etc to get it running).

I’ve met people born late 90s early 00s doing PhD in computer science who barely seem to know basic general computer stuff… All they know is that one extremely niche thingy they’re into. They never needed to learn general basics that much, stuff just worked out of the box.

Honestly why not just use an old laptop you have laying around to test 1 or 2 of your many project/ideas and see how it goes, before going 4000 $ deep.

Not OP. I’m willing to learn Docker, but I just can’t get it going. My machine is permanently connected through nordvpn, I use meshnet to access it from other devices if I’m not on local wifi. The docker + VPN doesn’t work. Docker fails to download anything from docker hub, every request times out. Any instructions to bypass it looked very difficult, manually editing subnets or something, I feel uncomfortable with. Disabling services, then disabling VPN, then installing docker stuff and then restarting services and VPN also seems silly. I got lots going throught dietpi (many nicely embedded services), though it’s holding me back for example from running jellyseerr

No, i’ld like to be able to do it on the go, while on the train for example

Edit: if plugging in is the option, i can just use remote desktop, sftp, etc, no problem at all. Specifically looking for best way to send from phone to server while server not physically accessible.

I see. It looks a bit more ‘sketchy’ than the original syncthing did tho. Is it trustworthy?

I indeed do not want to store it all on the phone. It’s more like a temporary folder on the phone, just to upload it to the jellyfin